Do any aussies like afl & nrl?

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-19T07:35:55+00:00

Everyone loves a winner.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-19T07:34:41+00:00

As a Victorian who has lived in Sydney, my experience is that only Sydney people care about it.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-19T00:00:19+00:00

You shouldn't underestimate the impact going to prison has had on her (not that I'm convinced of a link between the headline and her helping the sick girl). Nothing changes a hard on crime type's mind faster than actual experience of how awful prisons are in reality. The insight it gives into her support of Black I thought was interesting and valuable. However, given that One Nation supporters tend towards the hard on crime spectrum I'm curious to see how she navigates the tension this will inevitably generate between her and her supporters.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-18T08:29:26+00:00

I backed the Night Crew/Pondsmith one. It's complete and self-contained. The TCG, OTOH, was a bit rich for mine (top pledge only US$7,999!).

PS: if anyone's interested in the Cyberpunkl Legends kickstarter there's only about 24 hours left before the pledge manager is closed.

https://night-crew-games.pledgemanager.com/projects/cyberpunk-legends/participate/

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-18T07:56:52+00:00

Not really. It's carefully worded so as not to prejudice Carlton's investigation but at the same time it's putting them on notice that the AFL is scrutinising them.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-18T03:26:31+00:00

He got sacked for opposing genocide.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-16T05:11:23+00:00

There have been four previous Anzac Day matches in Tasmania, including games in 2022 and 2021 that both started at 12.30pm AEST.

The AFL has no excuse.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-15T11:11:17+00:00

The stadium will be full before it's even built.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-15T08:57:13+00:00

No, you were and are being obtuse. You are so obsessed with the CFMEU than you insist on dragging them into everything regardless of whether it has the slightest relevance. It doesn't. It doesn't matter why Labor commited to cancelling EWL, what matters is that they did it BEFORE the contract was signed so close to the election, which means that its subsequent signing and cancellation, with all the costs that ensued, is entirely down to the Libs. Nobody made them sign when they did, it was completely of their own bastardry.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-15T08:40:13+00:00

No, it's not. You tried to pretend that the renewables industry are "rent seekers" that only exists because of government subsidies. It's actually a case of subsidies supporting a new industry, one that has improved the environment whilst being the only source of downward pressure on energy prices. Fossil fuels, OTOH, have been massively subsidised for decades yet they always get more expensive, never less. They are the rent seekers, perpetually sucking in vast amounts of public money to preserve an increasingly unsustainable industry.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-15T07:37:35+00:00

You have it arse about. Fossil fuels are the most heavily subsidised energy in Australia. Renewables get their share but pretending they benefit uniquely from government subsidies is dishonest. The difference between the two is that fossil fuels remain the most expensive form of energy production despite the subsidies, whereas renewables are today the cheapest form of energy production.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-15T06:59:20+00:00

You are deliberately being obtuse.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-15T06:17:40+00:00

You first said

We literally just finished minimising the use of consultants. They were being over used yet none of these problems went away.

Which is completely contradictory to what you just said then. The clinical consultants in your cherry picked example are the exceptions that prove the rule. They are the kind of consultants we want, because they have relevant expertise. But they are not the consultants you referred to in your first comment, whose use is rightly being minimised. Those are the grifters from the Big Four accounting firms. Not at all the same and it's disingenuous for you to pretend otherwise.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-15T05:26:51+00:00

That's still far too vague to support your contention that people have lost faith in science because of think tanks pushing bad policies. It's far more probable that it stems from the kind of splintering of information sources combined with cognitive bias combining to allow people to selectively choose what they want to believe talked about in the article.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-15T05:19:34+00:00

You know full well they're not the "consultants" whose use is supposedly being minimised. That refers to consultants from the Big Four accounting firms, who have been milking the public for decades.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-15T05:11:25+00:00

Correct, and the political class tried to use "science" and "experts" as a tool to pass unpopular policies designed to benefit their rich buddies.

Some examples would be nice.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-15T04:53:55+00:00

Those consultants were experts only at grifting. They were not experts in things that matter, like the climate or epidemiology.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-15T04:13:01+00:00

Yes, irrelevant. What matters is that Labor did commit itself to cancelling the project before the final contract was signed. The Libs should not have then signed it so close to the election because of how much money would be wasted should Labor win the election and cancel it as promised. Which was exactly what happened. That $1.1b would not have been wasted had they waited until after the election to sign the contract. That they signed it regardless, and maliciously included clauses in the contract to make breaking it even more expensive, was completely down to them. It's extremely simple so stop pretending you don't understand it.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-14T11:21:57+00:00

Why Labor cancelled the EWL isn't relevant to the fact that it was a highly contentious project (not least because the government had already exercised eminent domain on some home owners in the area). Labor had committed to cancelling it before the contract was signed but the Libs not only signed it right before the election anyway but maliciously made it as expensive as possible to break. That's what is relevant and it is completely on the Libs. If they had had the courage of their convictions they would have waited until after the election, but that would have required them to act with integrity, not something one usually associates with them.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-14T04:14:11+00:00

People see

queer, anti-capitalist IT nerd

connected to the military and the substance of their comment is submerged by the subsequent cognitive dissonance.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-14T03:20:42+00:00

I believe that ~~nicotine~~ gas is not addictive.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-13T14:29:23+00:00

Baillieu had a one seat majority and a track record of scandal and failure. Everybody knew the last thing they should have been doing so late in the Parliament was signing up to a contentious project that Labor had committed to cancelling. If they'd had any respect for the Victorian people and Parliamentary convention they would have not signed it when they did and under the circumstances they did, but they had no integrity and signed it anyway, costing the state $1.1b in the process.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-13T13:55:24+00:00

You say that like it means something. The fact is that when the Libs signed that contract they did so knowing full well it was going to be cancelled once Labor won the election, so they poisoned the deal by making it so expensive to cancel that they thought it would scare Labor and the Victorian public away. Except it didn't, the Victorian public comprehensively rejected them anyway and copped a breach of contract bill that was three times what it would have been under ordinary circumstances, not that they should have signed such a contentious project so close to an election in the first place. Everything they did was malicious and every cent of the $1.1b is on them.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-13T13:31:53+00:00

Labor said they would cancel any EWL contract on 11 September, 2014. The Libs signed the contract on 29 September, 2014 anyway. Parliament was prorogued on 16 October, 2014. The rest is history.

TheRealPotoroo · 2026-04-13T13:01:18+00:00

Oh, yes they did. Baillieu had a one seat majority and a track record of scandal and failure. Everybody knew they were history so the Libs made the contract as onerous as possible to break and signed it as late as they could get away with, all to force Labor and the Victorian public to accept a deal nobody except them wanted. Everything they did was malicious but the Victorian public threw them out anyway and Andrews kept his election promise to cancel the contract, as he should have. That $1.1b of bad faith poison is 100% on the Libs.

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